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| author | Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> | 2016-03-06 23:27:26 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2016-06-30 23:30:52 -0400 |
| commit | f4e6d844bdc142322905d137a9e44e07eee43c5c (patch) | |
| tree | 3feaa4a6dd2e88ddaa8867d645f9ed2346e7b38b /Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | |
| parent | d4c91a8f7e5514a1e9cd37b453fda0dedfa8045d (diff) | |
| download | linux-f4e6d844bdc142322905d137a9e44e07eee43c5c.tar.bz2 | |
Remove last traces of ->sync_page
Commit 7eaceaccab5f removed ->sync_page, but a few mentions of it still
existed in documentation and comments,
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index c61a223ef3ff..d4e07c00e18e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -534,9 +534,7 @@ __sync_single_inode) to check if ->writepages has been successful in writing out the whole address_space. The Writeback tag is used by filemap*wait* and sync_page* functions, -via filemap_fdatawait_range, to wait for all writeback to -complete. While waiting ->sync_page (if defined) will be called on -each page that is found to require writeback. +via filemap_fdatawait_range, to wait for all writeback to complete. An address_space handler may attach extra information to a page, typically using the 'private' field in the 'struct page'. If such @@ -554,8 +552,8 @@ address_space has finer control of write sizes. The read process essentially only requires 'readpage'. The write process is more complicated and uses write_begin/write_end or -set_page_dirty to write data into the address_space, and writepage, -sync_page, and writepages to writeback data to storage. +set_page_dirty to write data into the address_space, and writepage +and writepages to writeback data to storage. Adding and removing pages to/from an address_space is protected by the inode's i_mutex. |